allowed
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editallowed
- simple past and past participle of allow
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editallowed (comparative more allowed, superlative most allowed)
- Permitted, authorized. [from 16th c.]
- Can she come? -She'll be allowed to go later.
- 1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18:
- The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a book twice as long.
- (now rare) Allotted. [from 15th c.]
- (now rare) Acknowledged; admitted to be true. [from 15th c.]
- 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
- With respect to the culture of the heart, it is unanimously allowed that sex is out of the question […]
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editpermitted, authorized
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